The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-01-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK
The house has passed bill creating a
department Of agriculture and labor.


department Of agriculture and labor.
John Roach, the veteran ship builder
died at his home in New York on the 1Otf
inst, Of cancer.
1t is officially stated that 4O5 persons
lost their lives by the recent incendiary
fire in the Peoples Park at Madris, India
The New York World advises republi.
cans to unite with democrats and elect
Roscoe Conkling to the United States
senate.
Vergho, Ruhling & Co., dealers in drug
gists' sundries and toys, Chicago, have as
signed. Liabilities 100000; assets not
stated.
Bullion to the amount of $4,000 was
stolen while being transported from the
San Augustine mine in Arizona. There
is no clue to the robbers
The grand jury of the parish of Ponte
Coupi, louisiana, have found true bill
of manslaughter against all the officers of
the burned steamer J. NJ. White.
The Russian military commissioner has
decided to adopt new repeating rifle for
use by the army, and orders for a large
number of weapons have been made.
At meeting Of the Western Nail AS
sociation held at Pittsburg, Wednesday, it
was unanimously decided to advance the
card rate on nails from $40 to $500 per
keg.
A fire at Carlisle, Kentucky, Tuesday,
destroyed property to the value Of $780,
900. DR.. Genslinger and Newton Craig
were caught by falling walls and fatally
injured.
-Four of the young men recently con-
demned at Sydney, N. S. w., for an out
rageous assault upon servant girl, were
hanged. Two others sentenced to be ex-
ecuted were reprieved.
Delegate Toole's bill, providing for the
service of all civil and criminal processes
issued out of territorial courts, in the Ma
tional Park and within Indian and mill
tary reservations, passed the house We'd
nesday.
At Monticello, Kentucky, Granville
Prewett was hung on Wednesday after
noon in the presence of 400 people, his
execution being in atonement for the muir
der of Jarvis Buck and his sister in Octo-
Der last
Chas. B. Farwcll was nominated We'd
nesday by the republican members of the
Illinois legislature for the United States
senate-Logan's successor. The demo-
cratic senatorial caucus nominated VIM.
r. Morrison.
Frank Miller, an ex-employe Of the
Northern Pacific railroad, was run over
by a freight train in North Town juno
ton, St. Paul, Monday night. Both legs
were badly crushed, and he died from his
injuries soon after.
Alice J. Oates, the wcll-known comic
opera singer, died Monday evening at the
residence of her husband in Philadelphia
She had wasted away greatly under a
complication of diseases and death came
as welcome relief.
The Northern Pacific machine, boiler
and blacksmith shops at Fargo, were
burned on the 9TH. Three locomotives
and number of valuable machines were
destroyed. The loss is estimated at from
$l5O,OO0 to 100000.
The Dakota Legislature met in joint
session Wednesday afternoon and Govern
or Pierce delivered his farewell message
The finances Of the territory, as we'll as
its educational and charitable institutions
are shown to be in flourishing condition.
Calvin Pratt, who was extradited from
Japan and convicted of forging checks
on the Pacific bank of San Francisco,
amounting to $4,000, has been sentenced
to fourteen years in the state prison. A
dollars year and expenses isn't
a bad salary these times.
The postofice department has furnished
The following for the information of post
masters: An act of congress, approved
January 3, 1887, authorizes the issue only
# postal notes mot the payment thereof
It such postoffices other than money order
,fices, as the postmaster general may
lirect.
The quail-eaters who stand ready to
wager that they can eat thirty quail in
hirty days will now have to take back
eat. &. G. Flora, of Campbellsville,
zy., has broken the record by eating
txty quail in thirty consecutive days, and
It last accounts was still eating birds at
he rate of two a day.
An Ottawa, Ontario, special says: "Scv-
raj important cases of smuggling are
,eing settled by the ministers of customs.
they involve several New York and Chi